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Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Not the Recycling Project We Had in Mind...

Hey, remember all that intensive psy-ops propaganda the PTB trotted out to sell the illegal and unjustifiable invasion of Iraq? Well, those same folks (you know, the ones who profit from perpetual war) have decided that they don't want those brilliant mindfuck strategies to go to waste.

So, the same propaganda is being used to sell the upcoming attack being planned against Iran. Isn't that special? In the absence of concrete facts or actual evidence, the propaganda machine has made great progress in creating an international consensus about the "threat" Iran allegedly poses. Read what Seymour Hersh says about it... See also Glenn Greenwald's perspective.

“In the councils of government we must guard against
the acquisition of power, whether sought or unsought,
by the military industrial complex.
The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties and democratic processes.”

Dwight D. Eisenhower
from his final address to the nation
January 17, 1961

If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issuance of their currency, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all their property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.
--Thomas Jefferson